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This plebian affection, common to both man and his domestic animals, has for long induced a sense of frustration in the therapeutist, since no treatment, either topical or systemic, has really proved effective under critically controlled conditions. Sulphur, iodine, mercury, zinc, salicylic and benzoic acids (Whitfield's ointment), epilation by X-rays, or counter-irritants have provided the classical line of attack upon the several dermatomycoses of man and beast, but treatment is usually disappointingly prolonged and not infrequently is only partially successful.